Quotes about Recognition
If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.
- George Clooney
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
praise comes from God as we renounce the pursuit of praise from others.
- John Piper
What you love determines what you feel shame about. If you love for men to make much of you, you will feel shame when they don't. But if you love for men to make much of Christ, then you will feel shame if he is belittled on your account.
- John Piper
Respect a man, and he will do all the more.
- John Wooden
It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
- John Wooden
Human beings may separate things into as many piles as we wish—separating spirit from flesh, sacred from secular, church from world. But we should not be surprised when God does not recognize the distinctions we make between the two.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
A priest is a priest, no matter where she happens to be. Her job is to recognize the holiness in things and hold them up to God. Her job is to speak in ways that help other people recognize the holiness in things too.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart once said he could not define pornography, but he knew it when he saw it. Reverence is a little like that. It is difficult to define, but you know it when you feel it.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
We are certainly damaged people. The question is, finally, do we use that damage, that first-hand knowledge of oppression, to recognize each other, to do what work we can together? Or do we use it to destroy?
- Barbara Smith
God is the one who always remembers those whom history has forgotten.
- Bartolome de las Casas